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The Price of Salt (Homosexuality)
by Highsmith, Patricia writing as Morgan, Claire
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0405073844
- ISBN 13
- 9780405073847
- Seller
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Houlton, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: Arno Press, 1975 A 1975 reprint of the 1952 Coward-McCann edition, this being the First Thus Edition with Arno Press. Part of the Arno Press Collection on Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History and Literature. [8], 276pp, [2], bound in orange cloth, with the binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. A semi- autobiographical novel, being the first lesbian novel with a "happy ending", which was later republished as Carol under the author's own name - Patricia Highsmith, and in 2015 it was adapted into a movie. This is the author's second novel, with her first novel being "Strangers On a Train which was picked up by Alfred Hitchcock and also made into a movie in 1951. Light foxing to the outer page edges, minuscule edge stain on the first five leaves.
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- Bookseller
- Monroe Bridge Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009656
- Title
- The Price of Salt (Homosexuality)
- Author
- Highsmith, Patricia writing as Morgan, Claire
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0405073844
- ISBN 13
- 9780405073847
- Publisher
- Arno Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Homosexuality Autobiography Lesbian Lesbians Gay Men Series Novel Literature Homosexual
- Bookseller catalogs
- RARE AND SCARCE; EROTICA/SEXUAL;
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